Louis freas



(No Model.)

L. PREAS.

IRON FENCE.

No. 412,178. Paiented 00's. 1, 1889.

N. PETERS. Pnnwulhagnpher, washington. l1 C.

UNITED STATES LOUIS FREAS, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO TAYLOR di DEAN, OF SAME PLACE.

IRON FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 412,173, dated October 1, 1889. Application filed February 25, 1889, Serial No. 301,033. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Louis Fnnns, of Pitts burg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Iron Fences, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication, in whichM Figure 'l is a side elevation, partly in seetion, of one of my improved pickets, shown in connection with the top rail of an iron fence. Fig. 2 is a view ot' the under side of the ence-raihshowing the picket in horizontal section.

Like symbols of reference indicate like parts in each.

In the drawings, represents a vertical Wrought or malleable iron fence-picket.

3 is the top rail of the fence, which is made of Wrought-iron, and il is the ornament on the picket, which is made of Wrought-iron or malleable cast-iron, preferably the latter.

In order to secure the fence rail, picket, and ornament iirnily together, I provide the ornament 4 at its lower end with lugs 5, which are ada-pied to tit in notches made at the sides of the hole in the fence-rail through which the picket passes. In uniting the parts of the fence the rail is set in the picket and the ornament is placed on the projecting end of the picket, so that the lugs shall extend down through the notches in the rail before mentioned. rlhen by means of a chisel I force down or calk the edges of the pickethole around the outside of the picket, as shown in Fig. 2, and with a hammer or other suitable tool I upset the lugs 5, projecting on the under side ot' the rail, and thereby secure the ornament and rail together, While the upsetting of the lugs acts in conjunction with. the forcing in of the metal. oi the rail to hold the picket in its place.

It is in the tubular integral ornament connected by upset lugs with the rail and picket, and having the picket passing through the ornament and rail, that my in vention consists.

I claimi An improvement in iron tences,which consists in the combination of a rail, a tubular integral ornament set on the rail and having a lug or lugs extending through the rail, the ends of said lugs being u Jset on the under side, and a. picket passing through and above the rail and tubular ornament, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In testi monywhcreof I have hereunto set my hand this 'llth day of February, A. D. 1889.

LOUIS FREAS.

'Vitnesses:

THOMAS W. BAKEWELL, NV. B. CORWIN. 

